To love is an action word, a verb. When it comes to loving your life what does it actually mean? What is required to enable an act of giving and/or receiving love….to creating a loving environment? How do we know it and recognize love of life as an experience? When we can answer these questions to our satisfaction, we will have the basic … [Read more...]
Deep Healing is just that – Deep!
May 13, 2015 by
Deep healing is akin to deep listening. To get to the level of healing that’s required to heal trauma in yourself you have to first open to yourself and listen deeply, patiently with compassion and forgiveness. This, deep and active listening, in itself, is a challenge and a particularly trying one for someone who is suffering with post traumatic … [Read more...]
The Power of the Circle
April 23, 2015 by
Today I want to write about the circle and what it evokes in me. The circle, as symbol, metaphor and as a living and dynamic form is “alive”. A circle has no beginning and no end. It is an open system; a symbol of wholeness, integration, oneness, eternal, presence and continuous self-renewal and as Rumi so beautifully expressed, the circle is … [Read more...]
Self Compassion and You
January 14, 2015 by
It is no surprise to me and I expect won’t surprise you either that people who treat themselves with compassion feel better about themselves and have better coping skills – are more able to respond rather than react to disappointments and setbacks. The September 2014 research study at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, by Kelly et al., 2014 … [Read more...]
Cultivating a Coaching Presence
December 26, 2014 by
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson Cultivating a coaching presence is a practice of awareness in action - of being your authentic best self, moment to moment within the context of a coaching session, aware and free of the pressures of conflicting, limiting or contradictory beliefs and … [Read more...]
Harnessing the Ego as a Force for Good
December 2, 2014 by
The ego is the “I”, the social self or personality we and others identify with, as us. It manifests in the role we play and how we play it. Our ego is the vehicle through which we act in this world to pursue our dreams, achieve our goals and get things done. Our ego is outward focused. It tends to measure success by the effect we have on others … [Read more...]
6 Ways of Living with Presence
September 4, 2014 by
Imagine if … You treated others in the way you would like your dearest friend to treat you…with sensitivity and compassion. You acknowledged yourself and others – really sensed what you felt, were open, sensed how others feel about you. Invited dialogue, engaged them and shared insights and experiences. You were relaxed, authentic and … [Read more...]
Past, Present and Future – It’s all ONE
June 27, 2014 by
It’s all ONE – when you own your past. For when you own your past it doesn't own you. You've accepted it and accepting it you know it and yourself, Realizing what motivated you to make the choices you made You let go of the need to find someone to blame, feel guilt or shame. It just is what it is! Accepting your past, you accept … [Read more...]
Straight from the Heart
February 13, 2014 by
When we are heart-centered, we speak unabashedly and simply, directly from the heart. We have nothing to hide because we are open and all that we are is visible – we stand naked. We simply are! In this state we experience both the fullness and the emptiness of being. Both full and empty at one and the same time we become aware of our life as an … [Read more...]
